Sickness vs. Wog — What's the Difference?

The condition of being sick; illness.

Wog is an offensive and derogatory term in Australian English and British English usually applied to people from the Mediterranean region and Middle East, such as Southern Europeans and North Africans. In British English, it may also sometimes apply to people from the Indian subcontinent and certain other parts of Asia, such as the East Indies.

A disease; a malady.

Used as a disparaging term for a person of color, especially a person from northern Africa or western or southern Asia.

Nausea.

Any person who looks in-between "white" and "black": originally specifically an Indian, but later also broadened to anybody of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.

A defective or unsound condition.

Specifically someone of Mediterranean descent; the word does not really have an "Indian" connotation in Australia.

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

Abbreviation of polliwog

Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.

(linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

A bug, an insect.

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.

Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.

Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

(Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist.

The state that precedes vomiting

(Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.

To steal.

An offensive slang term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia